InfoNorm: Mutual Information Shaping of Normals for Sparse-View Reconstruction

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Main Authors: Wang, Xulong, Dong, Siyan, Zheng, Youyi, Yang, Yanchao
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author Wang, Xulong
Dong, Siyan
Zheng, Youyi
Yang, Yanchao
author_facet Wang, Xulong
Dong, Siyan
Zheng, Youyi
Yang, Yanchao
contents 3D surface reconstruction from multi-view images is essential for scene understanding and interaction. However, complex indoor scenes pose challenges such as ambiguity due to limited observations. Recent implicit surface representations, such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and signed distance functions (SDFs), employ various geometric priors to resolve the lack of observed information. Nevertheless, their performance heavily depends on the quality of the pre-trained geometry estimation models. To ease such dependence, we propose regularizing the geometric modeling by explicitly encouraging the mutual information among surface normals of highly correlated scene points. In this way, the geometry learning process is modulated by the second-order correlations from noisy (first-order) geometric priors, thus eliminating the bias due to poor generalization. Additionally, we introduce a simple yet effective scheme that utilizes semantic and geometric features to identify correlated points, enhancing their mutual information accordingly. The proposed technique can serve as a plugin for SDF-based neural surface representations. Our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed in improving the surface reconstruction quality of major states of the arts. Our code is available at: \url{https://github.com/Muliphein/InfoNorm}.
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spellingShingle InfoNorm: Mutual Information Shaping of Normals for Sparse-View Reconstruction
Wang, Xulong
Dong, Siyan
Zheng, Youyi
Yang, Yanchao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
3D surface reconstruction from multi-view images is essential for scene understanding and interaction. However, complex indoor scenes pose challenges such as ambiguity due to limited observations. Recent implicit surface representations, such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and signed distance functions (SDFs), employ various geometric priors to resolve the lack of observed information. Nevertheless, their performance heavily depends on the quality of the pre-trained geometry estimation models. To ease such dependence, we propose regularizing the geometric modeling by explicitly encouraging the mutual information among surface normals of highly correlated scene points. In this way, the geometry learning process is modulated by the second-order correlations from noisy (first-order) geometric priors, thus eliminating the bias due to poor generalization. Additionally, we introduce a simple yet effective scheme that utilizes semantic and geometric features to identify correlated points, enhancing their mutual information accordingly. The proposed technique can serve as a plugin for SDF-based neural surface representations. Our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed in improving the surface reconstruction quality of major states of the arts. Our code is available at: \url{https://github.com/Muliphein/InfoNorm}.
title InfoNorm: Mutual Information Shaping of Normals for Sparse-View Reconstruction
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12661